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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1929
Page
4
The Lititz Record lists E. D. Fulweiler and J. R. Johnson as editors and publishers. The paper is entered at Lititz, Pennsylvania post office as second class matter.
Watchful waiting paid off as tobacco of 1928 yielded strong sales. After a slow market, purchasers surged in Monday and Tuesday, moving over a million dollars worth of crop. Prices ranged from twenty two and four to twenty five dollars per hundred, with half the county sold and the rest likely to sell soon.
A Lititz merchant argued against advertising citing twenty years in business and neighborhood familiarity. A church across the street, 25 years in place, rings its bell weekly to advertise services. A rival merchant promoted a sale and The Record’s report helped move stock quickly. the message is clear advertising pays.
Surveyors have labored on new bridge approaches at Columbia and Wrightsville. They cut two large trees in Mt Bethel yard on Friday and moved to the York County side. Reports say Lancaster County plans to cut through part of the Bethel yard at Second and Chestnut streets. The body of Joseph Winter of New Oxford, aged 70, was turned over to an undertaker for burial with two saving certificates totaling 7020 found in a leather pouch around his neck. Winter had lived retired for thirty years and was believed poor.
A coin flip determined who would fly the ill fated Fokker on the return from the Army air depot to Bolling Field. Captain H A Dinger piloted and was flown to Middletown airport where the wreck occurred killing eight aboard. He returned to Middletown to aid at once after learning of the accident.
Neighborhood notes report large attendance at revival services at Bran nerville United Brethren church. Local families visited relatives over the weekend including the Roots Kissinger Ehrhart Mease and Good families with gatherings in Reinholds Manheim East Petersburg Lititz and Lexington.
Halfville residents visit Rothsville and Manheim neighbors over Sunday while the Edlis and Garman families report movements. Tobacco sales begin in the area as Elias Eitnier hog weighs 645 pounds for Wayne Habecker. Several local residents recover from illness and return to work, including Robert C. Garman on the railroad.
County merchants and other taxpayers may voice complaints about mercantile taxes on July 10. Auditor general’s department in Harrisburg issued the notice. Appeals will be heard by Mercantile Appraiser C B Uhland at the Lancaster County Court House in Lancaster.
Harrisburg reports on January 17 noting H. J. Walton and Sons raised 696 bushels from a Chester county acre. The harvest will be shown at the State Farm Products Show January 22 to 25 in a pyramidal display requiring 400 square feet and 348 two bushel sacks. Walton, named Potato King of Pennsylvania, surpassed the prior 688 bushel record by Ray Briggs of Lackawanna County set in 1924.
The Elizabethtown Welfare Association launched its annual welfare drive on Monday with Chairman L. C. Hershey presiding. Canvassing teams were chosen and will be assigned at a January 14 public meeting in the council chambers of the firehouse.
Paul Good, 19, of Elizabethtown, charged with reckless driving failure to stop license cards and disorderly conduct, pleaded guilty before Squire Elwood S. Grimm after a chase and paid $47.50 in fines and costs. Good was arrested by Sergeant M. H. Snavely of the Highway Patrol.
Clay Cullings reports Mr. and Mrs. Samuel K. Keller and two daughters Helen and Grace of Lexington visiting the former's brother Mr. and Mrs. Lester K. Keller and family on Sunday. Mrs. Mary Hloover returns from Denver where she helped with housework at the Jacob Brubaker home. Mrs. Harry L. Wealand is on the sick list. Mrs. Redeau from Ezra Keller’s tenant house was moved to Reading Hospital. Mrs. Elser Gerhart of Lititz visited J. W. Gerhart and daughter. Farmers are busy stripping tobacco in the community.
The Lancaster Automobile Club announces an expansion of its highway emergency service to include tire changes at no charge for women motorists on the road. If a puncture or blowout occurs the driver need only call the nearest garage or service station and a mechanic will be dispatched to fit the spare.
During the holidays more than 30 baskets of food were given to needy families. The drive provides coal clothing food and rent for the poor in the borough. It supports welfare relief in Elizabeth town and aids Lancaster city and county institutions with an arranged distribution budget.
Local officials outline features for a community program including a public library, neighborhood activities, a Christmas tree event and child recreation spaces. The plan emphasizes community engagement and shared spaces for residents.
A weather observer explains hurricane development as a process starting with warm humid air rising in a wide area, forming a calm zone between opposing air currents. The system moves toward land once it loses its feed of warm saturated air and becomes self sustaining.
The State Department in Washington announced on Thursday that William Maynard Stapleton of Lancaster has resigned as vice consul in Sydney Australia. Stapleton born in Lewisburg in 1901, Dickinson College graduate 1917, served in the U S Army and was appointed vice consul in November 1924.
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